Understanding Kant''s Ethics

A systematic guide to Kant's ethical work and the debates surrounding it, accessible to students and specialists alike.

List of contents

Preface; Introduction; Part I: 1. Kant's pursuit of the supreme principle of morality; 2. The Categorical Imperative and the Kantian theory of value, part I; 3. The Categorical Imperative and the Kantian theory of value, part II; 4. Dignity; 5. Freedom, reason, and the possibility of the Categorical Imperative; Part II: 6. Objections to the Formula of Universal Law; 7. Three problems in Kant's practical ethics; 8. Reason and sentiment: Kantian ethics in a good human life; Conclusion.

About the author

Michael Cholbi is Professor of Philosophy at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is the author of Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions (2011), as well as the editor of New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (2015) and Immortality and the Philosophy of Death (2015).

Summary

This book presents Kant's notoriously difficult, and often controversial, theory of ethics systematically and comprehensively, focusing on his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Accessible to non-specialists and invaluable for all students of moral philosophy, the volume outlines Kant's ethical theory and addresses the most common objections to it.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Cholbi, Michael (California State Polytechnic Univ Cholbi, Michael (California State Polytechnic University Cholbi, Cholbi Michael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2016
• EAN: 9781107163461
• ISBN: 978-1-107-16346-1
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought